From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B26C3A75B9 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:07:26 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773148050; cv=none; b=oFfMhMH5G8x3fZdCe+8txagGCLe8RSssQtJV5h4NZztzJNGhdJWuNjcYgnwaAkFJTMyZWmDlI0P8k7mzI3fCWsqszVcAL/DIhL1BSfgKsMHv/dbBV7ZWR3C8m5RIzVQOXxB3W2v5lf2UGe+tm+dOxWYK0/KFfCMMzQGkUUAPJa0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773148050; c=relaxed/simple; bh=FxbQYXrSz5YTlXTz2zBDndIQt9sA2w8YutchPvYOSGU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=l0ELM8cqBxlc8ggvRU2E1jLFEsgLgjsgmgIUPuPBnPalSrDfMjlb35ayR+r4fxGDCO6/f/OwvXbBvM0Vv6JInOCTFYBj+aC9ruO8QrDhpIpjNTXU52oqzFTTis3wz5lbqWzZHak/xttgZ9En9mvsdjV0LetL8NemhhLHOGkgEqs= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=czRgpX8a; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="czRgpX8a" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=V/W8fUnIestLy4XQqxH/cuC4beXLBH3+wMpCM6OOPp0=; b=czRgpX8ao3GyEYJ68vvdf1QH8l CX4rAY9LmXmlvnR2Jxt9DIESDKqia4BO5jX+ZFBF7xkbYh5154ikLEDyhE6BoY/MRTzz2e59BHhTg Pg6UGoZFzcKuKPmpHeksvOnypeDT3KY1F51QBb+p8jh/y57vPUh7Wy2Ew1MYJdVbdhB0tlRExSokn ojcj5P8H485XhciASqnOwr+GY7RHypQMT4EnekWTgdlfDxr84imxxw5dm6oVbNCA312V+UsVBFEOn UvGzKRc0gbtpOin0o+zfjXDxbXdMwvi+VQiKluzfHf5YrIPlsC7W5uBGjj6LwA3AoHWCNfqXHDJAP Eu6TyvFw==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1vzwo1-00000009YhP-2lgN; Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:07:25 +0000 Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:07:25 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Yafang Shao Cc: hch@infradead.org, atomlin@atomlin.com, da.gomez@kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, mcgrof@kernel.org, petr.pavlu@suse.com, samitolvanen@google.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] module: print version for external modules in print_modules() Message-ID: References: <4215f061-488b-4c2b-98b3-45db4aabed5e@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4215f061-488b-4c2b-98b3-45db4aabed5e@gmail.com> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 09:04:14PM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote: > > > > Then don't run extetrnal modules, which are not a first part citizen. > > Get your changeas upstream instead of just leeching the upstream > > developers work. > > That doesn't make any sense. > Could you please explain the rationale behind introducing > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() and TAINT_OOT_MODULE ? Your straw man doesn't make any sense to me.